WebSphere Application Accelerator for Hybrid Networks

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WebSphere Application Accelerator for Hybrid Networks (WAXHN) enables you to manage and operate a scalable, robust, high-performing WebSphere infrastructure to deliver mission-critical business applications. Improve availability of Public Cloud or SaaS Applications to enterprise users behind the firewall

Feature	Benefit
WebSphere Application Accelerator for Hybrid Networks extends Akamais value to within the enterprise data-center and private network	Provides security through authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) to govern application access for cloud-built applications Dramatically improve performance by intelligently caching cloud services responses
WAXHN is a subscription-based managed service that can be added to an XE82 appliance	Leverages a private global Internet overlay to accelerate and secure requests to external cloud-based services. The overlay consists of tens of thousands of Akamai servers worldwide allowing WAXHN to provide a number of advanced capabilities to accelerate and secure access to external services
Performance and Scale	Adds acceleration and availability to WebSphere built applications by bridging data from any 3rd party data source(s) to/from the enterprise data-center Facilitates move to cloud, while maintaining performance and availability Business Value: stickiness, higher user productivity, lower support costs, lower capital costs, higher ROI on cloud strategies
Flexibility	Provides greater agility to quickly respond to infrastructure needs with cloud services Enables scalability which means no need to overprovision your network Business Value: removes barriers and enables cloud service adoption
Improved Security	Consolidates outbound traffic for policy enforcement, management, and reporting Governs application access for cloud-built applications Business Value: improved enterprise access control, lower security risk
Streamlined Implementation	Seamless integration between on-premise and 3rd party cloud applications Integration and acceleration of other IBM cloud initiatives such as Information Cloud for backup/restore and suite of LotusLive applications Business Value: Faster time to value for public cloud-based applications, no complex, costly changes to applications, no additional hardware required within the cloud, faster adoption

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